Afterword

Abstract

Only three children survived him, all daughters. Caroline Green married in 1871 and moved with her family to Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her son, Madison W. Baber (1873-1947), married into a prominent and storied black family that had been among the thirty slaves freed by abolitionist Moncure Conway, who took them by train through Confederate territory from Washington in July 1862 to Yellow Springs. Baber's daughter Bertha Morris lived long enough to vote against Barry Goldwater. Elisha Green is fondly remembered by his churches in both Maysville and Paris. In the latter city, the descendants of the congregation that rejected him in 1884 now claim him as their founder with as much pride as those of the original church, located one block away. Plymouth Baptist closed its doors in 1910. Clayville, the community of black homeowners he established in Paris, was replaced by new housing in the 1960s, but its name survives.